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The Japanese company that would become Taron was founded as Nippon Kōsokki. In 1943 it was called Nippon Kōsokki Seisakusho (日本光測機製作所) and based in Tokyo, Omori.[1] The company made the Taroflex 6×6cm TLR during World War II, and began the production of the successful NKS shutters.
After the war it was called Nippon Kōsokki Kōgyō K.K. (日本光測機工業㈱) and made the Taron cameras. It was still based in Tokyo, Omori.[2] The company was renamed K.K. Taron (㈱タロン) after its own products in 1959.[3]
Contents
Camera list
35mm half-frame
- Chic
35mm viewfinder
- JL
35mm rangefinder
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- Amica Eyelux
- Taron 35 II
- Taron 35 III aka MX
- Eye
- Eyemax
- Marquis
- PR
- Rival
- RR
- Supra
- VR (2.8 and 1.8)
- VL (2.8 and 1.8)
- V 18
- VIC
- Taron Auto EE
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| Taron AUTO EE |
- UNIQUE
- Electro 1000
- Auto EL
6×6 TLR
Lenses
Shutters
- New Torio and New Torio II, on the Semi Leotax[5]
- NKS
Notes
- ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Ōmori-ku Ōmori 4–51 (東京都大森区大森4–51). Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
- ↑ Its address from 1955 to 1962 was Tōkyō-to Ōta-ku Ōmori 4–45 (東京都大田区大森4–45). Source: advertisements dated 1955 to 1962 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.147 and 253–5.
- ↑ Advertisement dated May 1959 with Nippon Kōsokki and advertisement dated November 1959 with Taron, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.254.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item K7.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), shutter items 18-P-8 (New Torio) and 18-P-24 (New Torio with self-timer). The attribution of the New Torio II is extremely probable.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.
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